Cold hard truths that everyone should know

Eric Hydrick / Web Editor

It seems that there are just some things that everyone thinks, but can’t be said anymore. For some reason, it’s not acceptable to say certain things in public, for fear of upsetting someone’s overtweaked sensitivities, and it’s high time this crap came to a crashing stop. So I’m going to just come out and say some of things that no one else seems willing to just come out and say.

Not everything that happens to a minority happens because of they’re minority status. Before you claim that something is discrimination based on said minority status, you had better make sure that you eliminated all other possible factors, including your own actions, before you claim any sort of discrimination.

Hyphen Americanism is a bunch of crap. The only people who qualify for hyphen Americanism are people who immigrated to the US from another country. Black people are black, if they claim otherwise, they had better be able to identify the country they came from on a map (not the country their ancestors came from, but where they themselves came from).

In virtually all reported cases, modern terrorism is conducted by Islamic terrorists, motivated by, and carried out in the name of, Islam. They are not “insurgents” or “militants”, they are terrorists, murderers, and violent religious fanatics intent on forcing everyone to convert to their brand of religion or be murdered for having a differing religious thought.

Likewise, Muslims seem more interested in protesting anything a western nation does that might offend them than the actions of murderous terrorists who go out every day and commit violent crimes in the name of Islam and claim to represent the faith. The Mohammad cartoons have drawn more protests than the years of murders and kidnappings that have occurred in Iraq in the name of Islam.

People are responsible for themselves, no one else. It is not the government’s responsibility to take care of people, people are responsible for taking care of themselves. The government is not a health care or retirement income provider, that’s your job. Stop whining about what the government isn’t doing to pay for your not working or doctor’s bills and start providing for yourself. It’s not the government’s job.

Anyone who promotes the “Bush lied” line is either an idiot or a liar themselves. Multiple investigations were conducted into the intelligence behind the Iraq war, and all of them concluded that Bush accurately represented the intelligence that he was given, that he did not falsify or manipulate the intelligence agencies into giving him intelligence that he wanted to hear. If you do not know what you are saying to be false, it is not a lie. The next time someone comes up and whines about how “Bush lied”, demand them to cite one lie (“A false statement deliberately presented as being true” according to www.thefreedictionary.com). 

No politician actually means what they say. Regardless of who you support, politicians don’t believe that they’re there to serve their constituents, or the people in general. Politicians work for one thing, re-election. Stop telling saying that a politician you disagree with doesn’t really believe what he or she is saying, the politicians you support doesn’t believe what they say either. If an idea can’t win in a poll, a politician will sell it out in a heartbeat. They get away with it because no one cares enough to vote them vote for being the lying, two-faced, double-dealers that they are.

There are a lot more things that need to be said, but if nothing else, this should serve as a start. We have been letting people run around saying stuff that’s absolute BS for years, and it’s time for all of this to stop. There are simple truths out there that are being ignored and/or misrepresented that need to be corrected. The truth is far more simple than many people want to admit, and it’s time that everyone start to realize that.

Contact Eric Hydrick at pendulum@elon.edu or 278-7247.